Jonathan Robinson

Jonathan Robinson (11 August 1756-3 November 1819) was a US Senator from Vermont from 10 October 1807 to 3 March 1815, succeeding Israel Smith and preceding Isaac Tichenor. He was a Democratic-Republican.

Biography
Jonathan Robinson was born in Hardwick, Massachusetts in 1756, the brother of Moses Robinson, and he moved to Bennington, Vermont at the age of five. He was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives in 1789, and he became a lawyer in 1796. In 1801, he became chief justice of the Vermont Supreme court, and, in 1807, he was appointed to finish the unexpired term of US Senator Israel Smith. He retired after the end of his term in 1815, and he served as a probate judge from then until his death in 1819.